The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-15

course, to be sued, and we're duly incorp0-
rated by law IN the Sandwich Islands OF
some other remote State OF the great Amer
lean republic Il promised not 10 tell where
they got their suthoTity) under the name
of the Porter Lodge Society. Aud then
they went to work TO raise the necessary
sum (among themselves only, &c outsiders
being admitted) to buy a beautiful old
homestead near Miss Porter's studio with
thirty.six acres of land attached. They
fitted up the house and laid out ths acres
for The benefit of deserving women OF
New York city who have no other way of
spending their summers" That's the idea;
| don't quote from any circular, for they
have none, nor any advertisement for they
hide their candle of charity and will not
even allow the basket to be taken from
off the calcium light OF the modern
newspaper. They select their guests. APP
plications are in vain. Certain members
hunt up the deserving women" They
are invited to spend certain time at the
lodge. No sense of dependence or of charity
is left with the woman who accepts. she
is simply invited to mingle on near terms
with ladies of wealth and position IN
society because she is deserving" Ii is
intended to be the opening OF life to many
Door but deserving, enterprising, thought
full and courageous women struggling in
this lovely, magnificent, cruel, remorseless,
pitiless, inhuman maelstrom of life, where
everybody who can not swim alone will
drown, and where those who can not swim
without bladders and bloaters and other
uncertain help ought never to come.
There is but one exception 20 the prac-
teal character of this lovely charity. The
Porter Lodge Society unanimously re-
solved to violate its rules and its Sand
fch Iofo oh oyfar ND oil nf 70
members to make a special contribution.
1t was that of an alumnus, who had been
delicate at school and has been confirmed
invalid ever since her marriage. She asked
for and was accorded the privilege OF fit
ting 1.-THE room into which the most of
Gods sunshine pours' for invalids like
herself 1t is said to be one of most ex-
quisitely furnished apartments IN America,
with paintings and bric-a-brac of the most
delicate character, and special service of
nurses is provided Tor the occupant, who
ever she may be. Do you know it is a
devilish sight better world this than it is
painted.
Why is Providence. r l., made the CEN
ter of certain class of large manufactures
OF class that do not particularly care for
a protective character? Probably because
they can manufacture here on a larger
ufscturers can do the same work abroad.
| begin to think so. l was in Providence
recently and saw some of the large manu-
featuring establishments. The Corliss
company, which built that magnificent
engine which ran the works at the Cen ten
nisl exhibition, eleven years ago. is located
here. / asked, incidentally. what had be-
come of that engine, and learned that it
bad been sold for the permanent use of the
town of Pullman, H., or the town that Pull
man built. That Corliss has a brother.
be has a great manufacturing es-
Enlistment in the same city, or rather It's
suhurb on the Stonington road, and mag
nifceDt foundry Ii is. William Corliss,
like his brother, is an inventor as well as
machinist, and latterly bis ingenuity has
been devoted to deYising, and his estab-
ishment has been engaged in building Ore
proof and burglar-proof safes. This estab
ishment is one of the largest in the coun-
try, and it has been largely engaged recent
ly in building a safe within safe, the
outer safe, as t hey claim, being fire-proof,
and the inner safe being burglsr-proof.
con fess that my limited intellect in The
ID after of mechanics could not fully COM
prehend the statement that it was bomb
which couldn't be exploded, g safe that
couldn't be opened, and a safe that couldn't
be entered. was all the more mystitied
when they told and showed me that it
was safe without door. Near by the
foundry of the CorlisS people the Gorhan
Manufacturing Company of New York have
recently purchased twenty-five acres Of
ground, and are soon to erect manufact-
DRY which will be uneo ualed in this coun
try. 1t is said that they will erect as fine
works as their neighbors, the Corliss Safe
Manufacturing Company; that is to say,
massive and extensive, and fitted up wi b
special machinery, superior to that in any
similar works.
There is good deal OF inquiry here Just
now rs 10 a certain person by the name of
Goodyear. The inquiry started in a Joke
in regard to the dispensation of official
fsvors at Wasbington-by whom do not
know. a politician of some renown b ad
sure of a denomination next year, for the
reason that he had pleased not only the
South, but New Engisnd-two extremes;
and he added:
oh next year will be 4 good year 70
Mr.. Cleveland"
Another politician present asked: as
Goodyear still member of the firm?'
Firm asked the other.
cob yes-his firm-ClevelaDd, Bissell Il
Goodyear was the firm. Is he still a mem
ber?'
well, Good Luck is" was the response
was ,nte rested in this conversation, and
on inquiry I found that Mr.. Goodyear, o.
whom bad never heard, was member oil
tie firm of Buffalo lawyers when Mr..
Cleveland was citizens, ard that he was
the Buffalo lawyer OF the New York Central
Railroad.
The published statistics OF Vassar College
are very amusing TO one who happens to
know; as do, something of the life led
there by the inmates. Turkey and chicken
seem to be the favorite food of the sprin g
chickens there. The commencement this
year Just now concluding was signalized by
a funny incident of which a young aud
handsome artist, sent 70 make an Illus.
trated report for the Star, was the hero.
He was rather courted by the young
things highly agreeable for HIM, and he
quietly Djoyed their attentions BuI
he mentioned one day to several o.
them grouped about him that he had
probab bly, had more correspondence with
them than any other gentleman of theil
acoE kiutance- at this they were surprised
and expressed their surprise. "Oh, / an
in earnest, was the reply, land II you viii
permit me / will prove ii to you"
That's what we want" was the indig-
nant chorus.
well, all right" said Coultaus, for hs
was the artist in question. "Do you deny
Miss A." addressing one OF thu
ladies, ''that you wrote me that your bus
was SO, and that YOUR waist was 19?'
my goodnessl" the young lady ex
claimed, 81 never heard OF you before yes